Categoria: Book Review

The Careful Use of Compliments by Alexander McCall Smith “Do not act meanly, do not be unkind, because the time for setting things right may pass before your heart changes course.” Genre: crime fiction Unfortunately, this time I can’t write a good review for this book. The story is not bad, I appreciated it… Continue reading #38 Book Review

Niebla by Miguel de Unamuno “Hay quien se hunde en la lectura de novelas para distraerse de sí mismo, para olvidar sus penas…” Genre: novel Niebla is the story of Augusto, a middle-aged man, who meets Eugenia. He falls madly in love with her and he desperately tries to marry her, but in vain.… Continue reading #37 Book Review

Shirley by Charlotte Brontë “He did not yet known how many commenced lefe-romances are doomed never to get beyond the first, or at most the second chapter.” Genre: social novel Written and published after Jane Eyre, Shirley has been a good reading. I am fondly in love with Jane Eyre, and when I started this… Continue reading #36 Book Review

Deseo de Chocolate by Care Santos “Tres mujeres, tres siglos y la misma chocolatera de exquisita porcelana blanca.” Genre: novel Sara, Aurora and Mariana are the three female protagonist of this novel. They live in different centuries, they have different social status and lives, but there are two things they have in common: they… Continue reading #35 Book Review

The Minds of Billy Milligan by Daniel Keyes “By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is a world without feeling… But a world without feeling is a world without pain.” Genre: Biography It happened that one Billy Milligan went to… Continue reading #34 Book Review

High & Dry. Primo amore by Banana Yoshimoto Genre: Japanese literature Unfortunately I couldn’t find the English title for this book, so I will leave here the Italian one. There is not actually too much to say about this book, always avoiding to spoil the entire story. It is a short story set in Japan,… Continue reading ﻿#33 Book Review

Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” Genre: detective fiction, In a way, Sherlock Holmes has always been part of my family. It all started with my grandpa (my mum’s dad), he had all the books written by Sir Arthur… Continue reading #32 Book Review